Romy
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233 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Okay. Shall we? Mm-hmm. Where do you want to start the story? So I'm going to start the story almost two years ago, actually, October 2023. I don't know if you remember this, but you get a tweet from a guy named David. And what was David saying? I'm just going to get you to read that tweet. I'm going to put it in your Slack. All right.
Yeah, so that was the question we received on Twitter. Small question about a specific yogurt brand and why it came in a clay pot rather than a plastic one. Okay. Check, check, check. And it turned out the school that this question was coming from was just a few subway stops away from our office, so Shruti and I figured we would investigate their investigation.
The story we found, I'm going to tell it to you in chapters. So, chapter one, the school. Can you tell me where we're going? Yeah, we are on 75th and York, and we are headed to Lycée de New York, too. By this point, I'd already traded some emails with DFree86. His real name turned out to be David Freeman.
And he explained that he was a teacher at this French school in Manhattan, and one of the classes he teaches is basically a French school version of search engine. Like, that's kind of what he seems to be doing here. Sacre bleu.
David. Hey, David. Hey, Garrett.
David greets us, and I want you to imagine, like, the prototypical high school English teacher. Which prototype? Youngish, tasteful glasses, short haircut. Yeah.
So, the Lycée Francais de New York, it's a bilingual school, mostly kids from France and the U.S., although there are students from all over. And it's an old school, started in 1935.
David's been at the school for the last 14 years, and he teaches two subjects, English and also the class that we're here to see, a class all about curiosity.
The students start streaming in. It's about 15 students in total. And as the final stragglers take their seats, David just launches into his lesson for the day.
And David, I should say at this point, avid podcast listener, maybe a bit of a podcast producer at heart. And so with a bit of a flair for the dramatic, he begins to recreate the question that brought us here.
The students start giggling here because David has very theatrically revealed a pot of yogurt.
La fermière yogurt.
La Fermiere is a small artisan French yogurt brand. Do you know this brand?
I noticed this brand a little bit. You'll see them. Yeah. So La Fermiere yogurt stands out from the other brands in the grocery store because instead of the plastic packaging, you typically see yogurt come in. La Fermiere comes in these cutely colored, often lavender clay pots. It's a premium yogurt, definitely more expensive than your Chobanis and your Yoplas.
They have like premium sounding flavors, rose, lavender, orange blossom honey. Mm-hmm.
David asks his students for theories, like, why would this one company choose to use clay pots when pretty much no other company does?
Is it good for the environment? Mm-hmm. Anouk?
So is it cheaper to produce than plastic pots?
We could contact the brand to see if they had any specific reasons when they first produced the yogurt.
It's weird seeing this teacher do the thing that we do in pitch meetings, which is just to start to wonder at the possible explanations for these strange questions we encounter. Yes.
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